Hazelcast runs inside a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It is compatible with Java versions 1.6.x, 1.7.x, and 1.8.x. Installation and setup is as simple as downloading the zip (or tar) archive, copying the uncompressed directory to a desired installation directory, and adding the jar to your Java class path.

For example, after downloading the hazelcast zip from https://hazelcast.org/download/, using bash on Linux (Hazelcast 3.7.4 is used in this example, but the version you download may be different):